This blog site initially focused on renewable energy and the environment. But that was SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth. My next book, SS for Humanity, opened the subject area to everything else, including SETI, the afterlife, travel and cuisine. However, I still provide, now and then, SIMPLE SOLUTIONS.

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

*THE STATE OF PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY TODAY

1. Yemen, Bahrain, Libya, Iran, and Algeria remain in turmoil, Jordan, Saudia Arabia and Tunisia remain uneasy, while Sudan and Somalia could be next. The Muslim Brotherhood, a movement, not a political party, seems entwined in all these rebellions. They have been around since 1928, and some of them went on to found Al Queda, which now considers the MB to have sold out. The MB has been in the USA since the 1960's. Members of the MB are mostly professionals. They wear suits and accept that democracy might be a pathway to an ultimate Union on Arab Nations, from Spain to Indonesia. However, "Islam is the solution" is their belief, and an Islamic Caliphate is their ideal, a constitutional republic run by an Imam. Their spiritual leader is Yusuf al-Qaradawi (left) If the MB gains any kind of control, there will continue to be gender issues and Israel will be in high jeopardy.

2. My 31January2011 posting asked where is the next Earth? Well, the latest information from Kepler is that there are 500 million possible Earths just in our Milky Way galaxy. Mind you, while we have an ordinary one with, perhaps 300 billion stars, a beam of light will take about 100,000 years just to travel from one end to the other. Further, as there are, supposedly, 100 billion other galaxies, 500 million times 100 billion would suggest 50000000000000000000 possible Earths in our Universe.

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There are various ways to look at this, but one is to subtract 100 from 241, getting 141, so the effective inflation today, nearly a third of a century later, is 141% higher. Another comparison is that the CPI in 1916 was 10.9, and is at 240.853 today, a hundred years later. Thus, the average commodity that sold for a buck then, today goes for $22.

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I am Director Emeritus of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii and co-founder of the Pacific International Center for High Technology Research.
I have published three SIMPLE SOLUTION books and have written more than 100 articles for the HUFFINGTON POST. I am working with an enlightened team to pioneer the BLUE REVOLUTION (http://bluerevolutionhawaii.blogspot.com/),
beginning with the development of the Pacific International Ocean Station.